Thank you. It says, "Any data stored by an application will be
assigned that application's user ID, and not normally accessible to
other packages." Which might be what I'm looking for. But what is the
extent of "not normally"? Is it secure enough to store the key by
which everything else is encrypted?

On Jan 27, 9:11 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:37 PM, paladin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > No, another app can go to that directory and read anything in there,
> > if it hasn't been deleted.
>
> No, it can't.
>
> Maybe your first step should be to read some of the documentation on Android
> security.  A good place to 
> start:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/security.html
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.

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